Dumpster diving spot at latitude 40.888354, longitude -74.03955
Rating: good (2016-07-06T20:32:58.280842Z)
Comment: Giant Farmers Market (324 Main Street)

THE GOLD MINE!!! If you stand in the parking lot (on the River Street side of the store) and stand facing the store, you’ll see a fenced area with four very tall dumpsters on the right side of the parking lot - the side facing the McDonald’s parking lot. Of the four dumpsters, the two closest to the store are just cardboard. The other two dumpsters are just food.

If you don’t want to deal with an unsympathetic manager who will tell you to leave, go after about 9pm. If this doesn’t bother you, go between 9-10am and closing time. The later in the day, the more stuff will be there, but the dumpsters fill up so high that by the end of the day you won’t be able to access the stuff from earlier in the day without great difficulty. Fish arrives late in the day generally, fruit shows up pretty early, with more added throughout the day, and vegetables show up throughout the day. Staff usually leaves you alone and sometimes presents the best stuff to you before they throw it in the dumpster, but the owner  / manager will shoo you away if he sees you. You can get to plenty of stuff by reaching into the dumpster, but you can get to a lot more if you climb into the two monster-sized dumpsters at this place.